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...yacht, Adam's Fancy, playing dominoes with the natives, sipping Cutty Sark-and-milk, and philosophizing in typical Powell-ese. "Let's be sweet and walk together," he said last week. "Keep the faith." As to why he has not made some move to purge the contempt charges against him, Powell says: "My head isn't bloody, much less bowed...
Remarkably, it took the jury nearly seven hours to find the cons guilty-whereupon Judge Fiok finally had his innings. After handing each defendant a sentence of up to 40 years, Fiok rattled off contempt citations that added up to a total of 37 years to be served in solitary confinement and at hard labor. Unhappily, the trio must now also be tried for their mid-trial escape-unless the state takes mercy on Pittsburgh judges and drops the charges...
Held in civil contempt for refusing to pay a $164,000 libel judgment, Powell for months has been subject to arrest and a year's imprisonment if he entered the state. He was safe on Sundays, though, because the case did not involve criminal contempt, and his congressional immunity protected him whenever the House was in session. But Powell was recently held in criminal contempt as well as civil contempt, and State Supreme Court Justice Arthur Markewich last week issued an order for his arrest on "any day"-including Sundays and days when Congress is meeting. The chairman...
That was too much for at least one of Adam's House colleagues. Unless Powell purges himself of contempt by the time Congress convenes in January, California Democrat Lionel van Deerlin said, he would invoke a House rule that allows any member to challenge the seating of another. "No tradition of Congress," he said, "would be hallowed enough to justify seating...
...higher court ordered the four intransigent magistrates, who had stymied the budget, to approve it forth with or face jail for contempt. By week's end the rebels had spent 17 days in jail without a sign of surrender." Each day, some of their fellow jurists and as many as 1,000 of their admiring constituents fed them cakes and chicken through the bars. Having filed a federal suit asking for their freedom, the prisoners patiently waited and happily feasted...